<title type="main">F. W. Asbury, Peter Mann, and Alexander Curtis to James F. Robinson Edition created from new transcripts of this manuscript. Initial upload of this work's facsimile images and metadata to FromThePage for editing Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Administrator of the CWGK Migration transcription project on FromThePage Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections Kentucky Historical Society Digital Collections made 5 edits between June 22, 2025 and June 22, 2025. Dynamic TEI export from FromThePage (version 22.10)

This image and transcription is publicly accessible. The image appears courtesy of the repository named in the Source Description. The transcription and annotation were undertaken by Kentucky Historical Society staff, volunteers, and interns. If referencing this document title, accession number, and permanent URL.

 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department of Military Affairs 1st - 2nd Regiments Kentucky Cavalry Muster Rolls KYR-0002-033-0029 Box 45, Bundle 2

Boyle County, Kentucky James Fisher Robinson (governor, state senator, businessman, attorney, and farmer) N001004 1800-10-04 1882-10-31 Categories: People

Twenty-second governor of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, banker, and legislator. Son of Jonathan Robinson and Jane Black Robinson. Married to Susan D. Mansell Robinson on December 26, 1821. Father of Emilie Jane Robinson and James F. Robinson, Jr. Married Willina S. Herndon Robinson on May 30, 1842. Father of Scott Herndon Robinson, John McCracken Robinson, George Sidney Robinson, Madison Johnson Robinson, Stephen Gano Robinson, Willa Ewing Robinson, Philip Eldon Robinson, and Stephen Gano Robinson. Educated at Forest Hill Academy and Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. Trustee of Georgetown College. President of the Farmers' Bank of Georgetown. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1851 to 1855. Owned thirty-five enslaved persons in 1860. Represented Fayette and Scott Counties in the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from September 3, 1861, to September 5, 1861. Speaker of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from August 16, 1861, to August 18, 1862. Governor of Kentucky from August 18, 1862, to September 1, 1863. Returned to practicing law and farming on retiring from politics in 1863.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 1, p. 216B, 230A. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Scott County, District No 2, pp. 235, 236, 252. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 4, p. 266. John David Smith, “James F. Robinson (1862-1863),” ed. Lowell H. Harrison, Kentucky’s Governors (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004), 89-92. William Henry Engle, Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg: Lane S. Hart, 1886), 553, 556-7. Franklin W. Asbury (Private in the the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) ) N00005800 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier. Private in the the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) from October 21, 1861, to December 23, 1864.

Relationships Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 142-43. Peter Mann (Sergeant in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)) N00005801 Categories: People

Kentucky soldier. Private and sergeant in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) from October 21, 1861, to December 23, 1864.

Relationships Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 142-43. KYR-0002-033-0029. Alexander Curtis (Corporal in the 6th Kentucky Veteran Volunteer Cavalry Regiment) N00005802 1864-11-07 Categories: People

Corporal in the 6th Kentucky Veteran Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) from October 20, 1861, to November 17, 1864.

Relationships Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Thirteenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1910), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Gallatin, ED 69, sheet 1A, family 5, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 474; FHL microfilm 1,374,487. James H. Coffman (Captain in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)) N00005773 1833? Categories: People

Cynthiana, Kentucky, saddler and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Henry Coffman and Eliza R. Coffman. Captain in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) from September 15, 1862, to December 23, 1864.

Relationships Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Harrison County, Cynthiana, p. 5. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 142-43. John B. Buchanan (1st Battalion Kentucky Cavalry. ) N00005789 1830? Categories: People

Nicholas County, Kentucky, engineer and soldier. Kentucky native. Married to Susan Buchanan. Father of James T. Buchanan. Engineer in Nicholas County in 1860. Captain in the 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.).

Relationships Military: 1st Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nicholas County, District 1, p. 30-31. Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 148-49. Danville, Kentucky P00005549 Categories: Places

Seat of Boyle County, Kentucky.

37.6456, -84.7722 "Danville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed July 9, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Richard C. Brown, "Danville," in The Encyclopedia of Kentucky, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2002), 252. 6th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00009378 1861-12-23 1865-07-14 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Camp Irvine in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Companies A, B, C, D, and E mustered into service on December 23, 1861. Companies F, G, H, I, K, L, and M mustered into service on in August 1862. All companies mustered out of service on July 14, 1865. Commander(s): Colonel Dennis J. Halisy and Colonel Lewis D. Watkins.

Relationships Military: George Washington Morgan (Brig Gen'l USA, Minister to Portugal, Ohio) Military: Edmund Kirby Smith (Confederate General) Military: S. E. Smith (Jail in Lexington) Military: Reuben B. Munday (Major in the 6th Kentucky Cavalry.)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), 136-179. 10th Kentucky Volunteer Cavalry Regiment (U.S.A.) O00000866 1862-09-09 1863-09-17 Categories: Organizations

Organized at Maysville, Kentucky. Mustered in on September 9, 1862, and mustered out on September 17, 1863. Part of the Army of the Ohio. Commander(s): Joshua Tevis and Charles J. Walker.

Relationships Military: Andrew J. Farrow (Lewis County, KY, farmer and 1st lieut 10th Cav USA) Military: Kentucky Central Railway Military: Horatio Gouverneur Wright (Union General, commander of Dept of OH) Military: Samuel G. Suddarth (Adair Co, KY, atty, Quarter-master general of KY) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: William D. Ratcliffe (Bracken Co, Ky, tavern keeper & capt 10th Cav USA)

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Frankfort: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 271. Boyle County, Kentucky 1862-12-19 Petition English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
1

Camp Fry near Danville Ky Dec 19th 1862 His Excellency Gov. J. F. Robinson Sir

Your petitioners the undersigned members of Co. B, 1st Batt Ky Cavalry. are desirous of being transferd to the 10th Redg: -- Ky. Cav. as we have many friends and Relatives in Sd Redg we therefore Respectfully Solicit your Excellence to grant us Such transfer We haveing the consent of Our Respective Commanders there to you will lay us under many Obligations by an answer at your Earliest convenience

Vary Respectfully yours Obt Servts F. W. Asbury, Sergt Peter, Mann, private Alexander, Curtis, pr

2

I give my full and free Consent to their Transfer

Capt J H Coffman J B Buchanan Capt of compy D,

your Exellency will see that We have the Consent of our Capt J, H, Coffman and J. B. Buchanan Commanding Batt,

3
4

J. H Coffman Danville Ky Dec 19/62.

Coffman J. H. Capt Cav.

consents for several of his men to be transfered to 10.t Ky Cav

Military F. W. Asbury &c Pettn to be changed